Looking forward to the stars of 2013-14

For prep writers the summer months can be a bit of a wasteland. With school out, organized high school sports take months off and stories can be hard to come by.

But that doesn't mean high school athletes aren't working as hard or maybe harder in some cases. From football players heading to the east side of the state for 7-on-7 camps to basketball stars heading to San Diego for tournaments, summer can be a busy time. In fact Herald writer Aaron Lommers is working on a story about how high school coaches and athletes now hardly get any down time. Prep sports is literally a year-round endeavor.

Because of that over the past six weeks we decided to take a weekly look at what some of the members of the soon-to-be senior class have been up to this summer. For many, it's a lot.

Here's a rundown of the athletes we've profiled so far with two more coming later this week and next week.

Come November, Jackson's Jason Todd and Dan Kingma, Mountlake Terrace's Loren Lacasse, Stanwood's Drew Stang and Cedar Park Christian's Trey Dreschel will be focused on what they can do to help their respective teams get to the state tournament and compete for a championship.

This summer the five local high school players have had a different mission.

LAKE STEVENS WAHLBERG MAKING UP FOR LOST TIMEMontana Wahlberg, Lake Stevens girls soccer

LAKE STEVENS -- Montana Wahlberg, who will be a senior on the Lake Stevens High School girls soccer team this fall, has spent the better part of the past two years recovering from injuries that forced her to miss much of her sophomore and junior seasons and limited her abilities when she did get on the field.

Ten years ago, 8-year-old Callie Bircher and her 11-year-old brother, Chase, seemed well on their way to promising basketball careers. That all changed one August afternoon in 2003 when Chase Bircher lost his life in a drowning accident.

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